On the recordFebruary 6, 2019
I thank Senator Van Hollen for being here to talk about this. When I first became aware of this issue, which was over what was the Christmas holiday for us--Federal employees and Federal contractors were already not working and not getting paid--Senator Van Hollen was one of the first people whom I called to try to figure out what we might do to resolve this, to solve this problem. I thank you for your leadership and for all of the help that you have given me and all of us to try to figure out this problem. Thank you very much. It has been wonderful to work with you on this. I also note that I am very grateful to see my colleague Senator Casey here, who, I believe, also has some things to say about this. I thank the Presiding Officer. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Pennsylvania.
